Word: ton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...horizontal stabilizer, a part of the tail that is vital to maintaining control. Also fluttering to the ground was the fuselage of a single-engine Piper Cherokee Archer that had collided with the DC-9 on the virtually cloudless day. Trying to slow the dive of his 60-ton plane, Valdes threw its two engines into reverse thrust. The whine of the jets grew to an awful roar before the airliner smashed with a fiery explosion into a pleasant middle-class neighborhood of suburban Cerritos, where residents had been enjoying the Labor Day weekend...
...acre open-pit site. When it begins full operation in October, the Carson Hill venture will be the first commercial gold mine to open in the Angels Camp area since 1950. The company's general manager, W.B. Williams, expects to cull only .046 oz. of gold per ton of ore mined. But, says Williams, "if prices go down, we still make a profit...
...mellow summer evening last week, Captain Vadim Markov ordered his aged passenger liner unmoored in the Black Sea port of Novorossisk. The 17,053-ton Admiral Nakhimov steamed out of the harbor, bound for Sochi, 115 miles to the southeast, with 1,234 souls on board: a crew of 350 and 884 tourists, all Soviet citizens, enjoying a late-season coastal cruise. A band was playing on deck, and some of the passengers danced beneath brilliant lights that reflected off the dark waters...
Indeed, Peres' visit may be remembered less for any savvy statesmanship than for his swift response to the emergency. Just three hours before Peres was to make his flight from Tel Aviv to Yaounde, the first reports of the gas disaster began to circulate outside Cameroon. Half a ton of medical supplies was promptly loaded onto the Prime Minister's Israeli air force Boeing 707, and a 17-member army medical team was hastily assembled to accompany the official party. Although the Israeli group landed in Yaounde last Monday, the crude internal travel conditions made it impossible for the medics...
...noon Tuesday, six French-made F-1 Mirages streaked out of the west. They fired Exocet missiles and dropped laser-guided bombs on an estimated 15 tankers anchored off Sirri and on the terminal itself. Three ships were hit, ^ and one, the 233,788-ton Iranian supertanker Azarpad, was consumed by flames. Fires on two other vessels and the 6-sq.-mi. island took a day to control. In all, at least eight seamen died...